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Meet by Google — Enterprise-friendly version of Google Hangouts
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@andrewett and just a few weeks ago, Amazon launched its video conferencing app.
@rrhoover @andrewett Of course. cannot forget Amazon Chime here. Would love to see how both stack against each other.
@andrewett @sarahintampa Zoom is better. When it's actually working....Had a meeting with our team yesterday and no one could start a Zoom session or download the latest executable. #fail
@metalhaze agreed, I've got no idea how to use it, if I need to sign up for something, or how I could use it with my customers. Sticking with UberConference
@metalhaze logged in with G Suite I just typed a meeting test and it created a meeting, pretty straightforward. Currently I use Zoom mainly, paying, but I think the only reason I would use this is A: makes screen sharing for Google Chrome (especially on macOS with all the permissions in Catalina) easier for end users B. quick and fast, I was surprised that it loaded up and worked without even a miniscule spike in CPU/GPU or load time.
I think the main thing that pushed me from Google video conferences in the past was the inability to allow others to 'control' your screen, and I don't see anywhere to do this with the short test (but I did not test with anyone yet). If someone knows if this exists or a workaround now, let me know!
Every hangout i have starts as a cal invite... all they need to do is change that default and i'll use it
@gabriel__lewis What even is the full list now?
* Hangouts
* Allo
* Duo (if you count it)
* Messenger (to become Android Messenger)
*Spaces
and now
* Meet by Google
I mean. I'm all for messaging, but they really need to settle on what their plan is. Hangouts was a fine app, accessible everywhere, and despite being kind of gross looking, useful.
I don't even know where to message my friends at anymore. I have a four page folder on my homescreen full of messaging apps that I use to message my friends, family, work, stranger, people I'm interviewing, all of it.
We really need a one/all solution for this problem I"m sure most of us deal with. There's just no app that really fits what we all want right now.
I'd say Whatsapp, but not many Americans that I know use it. It's more of an international thing, which really puts me on a bummer since it's such a fantastic app.
I like Keybase {https://keybase.io/}, but it doesn't have a mobile app yet. (I talked to the founder and he said it'd be another three months or so).
Everything else just dodges out on something that I want, or simply feels tacky. I don't even know what Facebook Messenger has become? Is it Snapchat? Is it Whatsapp? Is it a gross frankenstein-esque monster (in the sense of hagged together, rather than destroying its creator) that prompts me to send stickers to my mother constantly? Who knows?!
I just don't see a solution anymore to this problem, and Google is doing everything in its power to make it worse it seems.
We're forced to use Zoom because Hangouts lacks HIPAA compliance. Does anyone know if Meet is HIPAA compliant?
Isn't this what Hangouts was going to become - video chat/chat for business? I'm sorry, Google is just lost when it comes to communication/chat apps.
(on recent events of Spaces closed before me and many others even hear about it)
Great, when do they plan to close it?
Google, it's time to stop. Pick one chat/video messenger and make it the best.
@gabriel__lewis I can't wait to see what will eventually happen with all the other applications that they are currently maintaining. They're wasting resources. Instead, they should focus on Allo and Duo and make them the best that they can be.
@mattahorton @gabriel__lewis Why kill it when you can update it again? :D https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Interesting. We used hangouts for a long time but recently switched to zoom because of so many connection issues with hangouts. If they fix the connection issues, this could be a strong competitor to Zoom. Super happy with Zoom so far though.
Interesting. A little bit like appear.in (persistent links, yeah) mixed with more powerful features like call-in. Will give this a try tomorrow.
We've been thinking about using this because there's no login required and it works in your browser.
https://appear.in
We've been test-driving Meet as part of the Early Access Program from Google in our company for a few months now, and I can only recommend every Hangouts user to switch immediately. Better user experience and even improved conferencing quality (we were experiencing a lot of connection issues). Annoying sound echo seems to be gone too.
Still waiting for a real mobile "Meet by Google" solution though, and still missing a "click to call" a contact feature.
@baptistelaget That's good to hear because the dropped connections and echo issues were a major pain to our virtual team members.
And not only that but it ONLY works with Chrome [not even Opera which is based on Chromium], no Firefox, no Safari, no Opera support... :/
The app doesn't appear to be live in the US app store yet, but if it can show me hangouts for the meetings on my calendar I'm up for it. Finding the hangout link for meetings on iOS is a huge pain right now.
After 1 test i just can say: OK, fits the needs, just wanna see more uses to overload what google thinks they can even think
I can see the path forward: offer Meet, deprecate Hangout, finally end the sad sad place that is Google+. I really don't know, though, how someone trusts Google given their track record on non-essential office replacements.
Not a chance I'll adopt this when there are reliable options out there for video or unreliable options that are at least well adopted.
The issue with Google is that they are not focused. They come up with a new product every once in a while and then abandons it and replaces it with something else that goes out of the market in a few months.
Hmm this is interesting, for my G Apps Business account it still routes through Hangouts... One of my biggest issues with Hangouts is not being able to distribute dial-in numbers, which is a pain. We've been using Skype for Business as well since we use O365 which is also going through some positive changes at the moment.
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